Peter Poellner, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, has a new book published by Oxford University Press. In Value in Modernity, The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, and Musil (OUP, April 2022), Professor Poellner presents an original and innovative reconstruction of a strand of philosophical modernism previously overlooked, and explores new interpretations of Nietzsche and Sartre and their ethical thought. Professor Poellner’s text also offers the first in depth interpretation in English of the philosophical centre of Musil’s The Man Without Qualities.

Value in Modernity - Peter Poellner - Oxford University Press (oup.com)

Professor Stephen Houlgate was a guest on an edition of ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 26^th May 2022. The topic for discussion was Hegel's Philosophy of History. Other speakers were Sally Sedgwick (Boston University) and Robert Stern (University of Sheffield).

A link to the programme is here: In Our Time - Hegel's Philosophy of History - BBC Sounds

The Humanities Council and the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University have appointed Professor Andrew Huddleston as a Long-Term Visiting Fellow. During his Fellowship, which will commence in the Autumn of 2022, Professor Huddleston will be teaching a graduate seminar as well as continuing to undertake research on his book about the religious aspirations of art during the period from Early German Romanticism through Modernism.

Professor Huddleston is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy, and specialises particularly in 19th and 20th century European Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics.

https://humanities.princeton.edu/2022/05/13/council-announces-2022-23-long-term-and-short-term-visitors/

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce an impressive set of results for the REF 2021 assessment of Research Excellence. 48% of our research outputs (e.g., books, book chapters, and articles) were assessed as 4* (world leading); 45% of our overall submission was also assessed as 4* (so, that includes research outputs, research impact (non-academic change/effect/benefit based on our research), and our research environment). Altogether, this is an excellent outcome for the Philosophy Department, and an achievement that the Department plans to build on in the future.

 The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) is an internationally recognised system for assessing the quality of research carried out in UK Higher Education Institutions.

The Philosophy Department are delighted to announce that Adina Covaci (Teaching Fellow) and Kirk Surgener (Associate Professor and Director of Student Experience and Progression, PPE) have both been shortlisted for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence 2022. The Awards recognise colleagues with outstanding teaching skills who have made a significant impact on teaching and student engagement over the past academic year. Congratulations to Adina and Kirk on their well-deserved nomination, and their outstanding contribution to the Department in 2021/22.

Winners will be announced on 27 June 2022. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/academic-development/wate/shortlistcategories/

Teaching Fellow, Massimiliano Lacertosa, has been appointed as a new Associate Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement, in recognition of his work in promoting a more inclusive engagement approach to the discipline of Philosophy.  Massimiliano (Max) is pro-actively committed to both the diversification and decolonisation of the curriculum and has delivered popular new modules on World Philosophies and Chinese Philosophy in the Department.

The WIE aims to continually improve how the University engages with the public, key influencers and decision makers, and actively seeks ways on how best to communicate effectively with these groups and beyond.

Professor Quassim Cassam participated in a recent edition of BBC Radio 4’s flagship debating programme, The Moral Maze, exploring the topical theme of Expectations and Apologies.

“Anthropology tells us that the basic rules of morality are universal. But socialists say that cultural norms dictate how we are to behave, and Britain is culturally diverse…perhaps we should live with our politicians’ clay feet and look elsewhere for paragons of moral virtue?” (BBC website) 

The link to the programme is here: BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, The Rules - Expectations and Apologies

Hegel on Being is a comprehensive study of the first part of Hegel’s Science of Logic — the “doctrine of being” — by Stephen Houlgate and published by Bloomsbury Academic Publishers (in two volumes). Based on many years of research and teaching, this new book examines the purpose and method of Hegel’s Logic and explains in detail Hegel’s derivation of the categories of quality, quantity and measure. It also contains an original account of Hegel’s critique of Kant (including Kant’s antinomies) and an extensive comparative study of Hegel and Frege.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hegel-on-being-9781350190689/

Professor Quassim Cassam has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Professor Cassam graduated from Keble College with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1979, and has written extensively on self-knowledge, perception, intellectual vice and conspiracy theories. Professor Cassam’s new book on Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis’ has just been published by Routledge (September 2021).

Five New Honorary Fellows Elected - Keble College (ox.ac.uk)

The Department of Philosophy has been ranked in an impressive third place (by subject) in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2022.The University of Warwick has also been recognised as the best University in the UK for quality of teaching and is ranked as runner up in the University of the Year Award. These outstanding results reflect the dedication and commitment by both the Philosophy Department and the whole Warwick community in the face of the unprecedented challenges posed in recent months by the coronavirus pandemic.

Warwick named University of the Year for Teaching Quality